Friday Night Eclectic at the Mansion at Strathmore Hall, always a winner.  It’s a great opportunity to see local talent and enjoy the beautiful venue, and much respect to Strathmore Hall for providing this outreach to the young artist community.  A friday or two ago I went to check out a group called Bellflur, a [...]

The other weekend I visited Pittsburgh to see an old friend of mine, Hironori Yoshida.  While his first name is Hironori and he often goes by ‘Hiro’, I’ve always called him by his other nickname, ‘Yoshi.’  Yoshi is a guest researcher at Carnegie Mellon, working on digital fabrication.  For those unfamiliar with the term (ie me, before Yoshi explained slowly [...]

Bat and I checked out the Sneaker Pimps show, at Lux Lounge on New York Ave.  It was pretty dope, there were some hip hop performances (although the names of the performers escape me now), people were selling sneakers and related merchandise, you could bring pairs to buy/sell/trade, and of course there was a lot [...]